fail as in fail

Did Eight Minute Abs this morning before going to work ("Come on gang!"), went to fighting at lunch for a brutal workout, then after work hit the dojo and did kumitachi for an hour with Elvis. Arms pretty sore from yesterday's PCP, and I had all of 4 hours of sleep last night. Finally made it back home and was excited to try out my new pull-up bar.

Alas, it was not meant to be. Checked every door in my apartment and in my building and there was simply no place to hang the damn bar. Almost worked on the door into the garage, but the automatic door-closer thingy arm was in the way.

Defeated, I did inclined pull-ups under the kitchen table, just like old times. At least I cranked out a bunch of those to failure.

DaVincis were utterly brutal today. My shoulders burned immediately and failed catastrophically. Even managed to go to failure on the rows.

Strangely, I completely succeeded to do all 100 situps and all four sets of 40-second planks. Actually the last five seconds of the last plank made it all worth it; I was literally shaking so hard I almost fell over. I just tried to breathe really, really slowly like Patrick showed me and ended up collapsing into a quivering pile on the living room floor.

Feels so good to FINISH a workout that brutal, eh?

Also had yet another one of those "You lost alot of weight! How'd you do it? I want to do it too! Oh no drinking alcohol? What, exercise every day? But I'm so busy! I can't cook! My family! I travel too much!..." *sigh*

Come on people, it's not rocket surgery brain science. Here is how PCP works:

Eat healthy.

Take in fewer calories than you burn every.

Exercise every day to burn fat and build muscle.

More muscle means higher metabolism.

Higher metabolism means you can eat and not put on fat.

And everyone always asks "Yeah but what happens when the three months are up? You'll just get fat again?"

Getting Peaky is the absolute definition of a virtuous cycle: after PCP I will have less fat and more muscle, therefore a higher metabolism. Plus I will be in the habit of eating healthier, smaller portions, and getting some exercise on a regular basis.

So I can keep eating like a normal person, working out regularly, and not put on fat.

What part of this is worse than staying fat and unhealthy and wishing I could do something about it?